Antique Square Spanish Rug, Light Palette, All-Over Field, High Low Pile

The saturated straw yellow field holds an offset velvet pattern of Renaissance palmettes and flowing leafy stems. Rust border with fleshy voluted arabesques. A rare and attractive pi...

The stepped strongly abrashed brown corners position the straw open field with a tall, pendanted eight lobe medallion with a circular center. Internal pendants on the sub-medallion. ...

Near 4-foot square distressed early 20th century North Indian rug Measures: 3'10' x 3'11''.

Egypt has a rug-weaving tradition that dates back to at least the 16th century. After a brief period of glory, though, it seems to have gone into abeyance until after World War Two. The birth of the handmade carpet industry in modern Egypt dates to the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, when the importation of carpets from Iran ceased. Most people don’t think of Egypt as a source of Oriental rugs. New Egyptian rugs are almost never included in books on the subject because, first of all, new Oriental rugs...